Terje Aven is Professor of Risk Analysis and Risk Management at the University of Stavanger, Norway. He has recently served as Chair of the European Safety and Reliability Association (ESRA) and as the President of Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) worldwide. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Risk and Reliability, and Associate Editor for Risk Analysis.Shital Thekdi is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Richmond, USA.